SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) CONFIGURATION Full Guide 🛠️

📖 162 Pages | 📸 High-Quality Step-by-Step Screenshots | 📑 PDF | Real-World Implementation Guide

This 162-page, hands-on configuration playbook is designed for consultants, key users, and IT professionals who need to configure, test, and deploy SAP PM from scratch. It is packed with real-world, step-by-step configurations, IMG paths, T-codes, and visual screenshots to ensure you never get stuck.

Index

1. Getting into Configuration Area of SAP

2. Enterprise Structure (Organization Structure)

• 2.1 Contents
• 2.2 Define Maintenance Planning Plant
• 2.3 Assign Maintenance Planning Plant to Maintenance Plant
• 2.4 Define Location
• 2.5 Define Plant Section
• 2.6 Define Planner Groups

3. Master Data Setting

• 3.1 Define user status (for master data)
• 3.2 Create authorization keys for user status authorization
• 3.3 Define currency for maintenance statistics
• 3.4 Define permit category
• 3.6 Create no. of ranges for measuring point
• 3.7 Create no. of ranges for measuring documents
• 3.11 Define partner determination procedure
• 3.12 Define object information keys
• 3.13 Define types of technical object
• 3.14 Define ABC indicator
• 3.15 Define authorize group for technical object
• 3.16 Set view profile for technical object
• 3.17 Define object information keys
• 3.19 Define category for function location
• 3.20 Define field selection for function location
• 3.21 Define Equipment category
• 3.22 Define additional business view for Equipment category
• 3.23 Define no. ranges
• 3.24 Define usage history update
• 3.25 Define installation at function location
• 3.26 Assign user status profile to equipment category
• 3.27 Assign partner determination procedure to equipment category
• 3.28 Define field selection for equipment master record
• 3.29 Allow multilingual text maintenance for each equipment category
• 3.30 Define serial no. profile
• 3.31 Define default equipment category for serial no.
• 3.32 Define responsible designers and laboratories
• 3.33 Define item category

4. Maintenance Planning

• 4.1 Define maintenance planner group
• 4.2 Set maintenance plan category
• 4.3 Define number ranges for maintenance plan
• 4.4 Define number ranges for maintenance items
• 4.5 Define short field for maintenance plans
• 4.6 Configure special function for maintenance planning
• 4.8 Configure planner group
• 4.9 Define no. ranges for general maintenance task list
• 4.10 Define no. ranges for Equipment task list
• 4.11 Define no. ranges for task list for function location
• 4.12 Define PRT authorization group
• 4.13 Define PRT group keys

5. Notifications

• 5.3 Define long text control for notification type
• 5.6 Maintain catalogs
• 5.7 Define catalogs profile
• 5.8 Change catalog & catalogs profile for notification
• 5.9 Define partner determination procedure and partner function
• 5.10 Define priorities
• 5.12 Define status profile
• 5.13 Create authorization keys for user status authorizations
• 5.14 Assign object information keys for notification type
• 5.15 Overview of notification type

6. Order Types / Order Processing

• 6.2 Indicate order types for refurbishment processing
• 6.3 Configure number ranges
• 6.4 Assign order types to maintenance plants
• 6.7 Create default value profiles for external procurement
• 6.8 Default values for task list data and profile assignments
• 6.10 Define proposed reference time for technical completion
• 6.11 Define default order types for maintenance items
• 6.13 Maintain default values for control keys for order types
• 6.14 Define maintenance activity types
• 6.16 Default values for maintenance activity type for each order type
• 6.17 Assign costing parameters and results analysis keys
• 6.19 Define documentation for goods movements for the order
• 6.20 Define inspection control
• 6.21 Define account assignment cat. and document type for purchase requisitions
• 6.22 Define priorities
• 6.23 Activate default value for current date as basic date
• 6.24 Define default values for units for operation / Define status profile
• 6.25 Create authorization keys for user status authorizations
• 6.27 Define partner determination procedure and partner function
• 6.28 Set scheduling parameters
• 6.29 Create revisions
• 6.30 Assign default values for settlement areas to order types
• 6.31 Assign object information keys / notification types to order types

7. Completion Confirmations

• 7.1 Define control parameters for completion confirmations
• 7.2 Define causes for variances

8. Installation/Dismantling

• 8.1 Make general settings for installation/dismantling
• 8.2 Determine properties of notifications for installing and dismantling parts